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Pure Religion: Controlling the Tongue, Caring for Those in Need, and Staying Unstained by the World

Explore the powerful messages in James 1:26-27, Prov. 18:21, Isaiah 1:11-17, and 1 John 2:15-16. Reflect on the implications and applications for your life, including controlling your words, helping others, staying distinct from the world, and renewing your inward self.

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Pure Religion: Controlling the Tongue, Caring for Those in Need, and Staying Unstained by the World

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  1. Religion that is Pure & Undefiled James 1:26-27 May 13, 2018

  2. Test 1: Controlling the Tongue

  3. Proverbs 18:21 (ESV) Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

  4. Bridles

  5. Matthew 12:33-34 (ESV) Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

  6. Test 2: Caring for Those in Need

  7. Isaiah 1:11-14 (ESV) What to Me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; … I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. …Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. …Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they have become a burden to Me;

  8. Isaiah 1:15-17 (ESV) When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before My eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause. The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Is 1:11–17). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

  9. 1 John 3:17-18 (ESV) But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

  10. Test 3: Keeping oneself unstained from the world

  11. 1 John 2:15-16 (ESV) Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

  12. Implications & Applications: • What is coming off your tongue? • In what ways are you helping those in need? • Are you distinct from the world? • Are you outwardly religious or inwardly renewed?

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